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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@zittrain.bsky.social
A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
@klonick.bsky.social
Law professor & journalist researching internet law, online speech governance, AI. Dallying in consumer protection. For sporadic writings on these things see: https://klonick.substack.com/ For more info and full bio see: www.kateklonick.com
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@tiffanycli.bsky.social
Tech, Privacy, & AI Law Professor 🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli 🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li 🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli TiffanyLi.com if you insist
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@jillian.bsky.social
Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021). Views are mine alone. Work @EFF, teach at College of Europe Natolin, full bio at https://jilliancyork.com/about #freealaa
@stevepeers.bsky.social
Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming). Usual disclaimers.
@daniellecitron.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
@mitpress.bsky.social
Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962. Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu // The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Mutinous mutterer. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New Cal Sounder novel SLEEPER BEACH is OUT NOW. UK pb Karla’s Choice coming May 22nd. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@oliviasolon.bsky.social
Covering tech at Bloomberg from London Signal: @oliviasolon.13 Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, co-Director @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own.
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@bricksilk.bsky.social
Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: Barrister, Cross-bench Peer, Interim Prevent Commissioner (2025); HL Constitution Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-indept reviewer terrorism legn; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
@v0max.bsky.social
Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own. https://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
@acm-cscw.bsky.social
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. CSCW 2025 will be in Bergen, Norway from October 18–22, 2025: https://cscw.acm.org/2025/. Next submission deadline: May, 2025 for CSCW 2026.
@j2bryson.bsky.social
Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
@melissaterras.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including CoSTAR network activities, Creative Informatics, and Transkribus. MBE FREng.
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@karengregory.bsky.social
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | CAHSS Digital Lead | Critical Data Studies @ EFI Writing: Enchanted Entrepreneurs: Media, Work, and Meaning in the Spiritual Marketplace
@hartzog.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
@iwillleavenow.bsky.social
Global Privacy Counsel at EPIC, privacy advocate, nerd. Personal opinions, terrible jokes. CIPM, CIPP-US/E/C, FIP.
@technollama.bsky.social
Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. Rare dual Tico-British citizen. https://www.technollama.co.uk/
@elinorcarmi.bsky.social
🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City, University of London, UK. She/her. https://elinorcarmi.com/ Working on data politics/feminist data/data literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
@billt.bsky.social
Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
@privacymatters.bsky.social
Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data. Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing ゆとり Profile pic from 1st UK lockdown 2020. Did it for a charity helping bereaved children & their families. Raised £1200
@liedra.net
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games Content co-lead #EMFCamp Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic https://liedra.net
@robyncaplan.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom. I make bad jokes sometimes.
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@aselbst.bsky.social
UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice; posting not necessarily related. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@nickseaver.website
anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
@lilianedwards.bsky.social
Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
@jameschalmers.bsky.social
Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Nothing should be inferred from the absence of unnecessary disclaimers on this profile.
@wchr.bsky.social
Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work. wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
@streinz.bsky.social
Prof of Law & Regulatory Theory @eui-law.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social 📚 Researching European/global data/tech law & governance
@thatdocphoenix.com
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence. Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
@mooseabyte.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP and SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.